• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    So now we know for certain they did something very specific to reduce the price of eggs (because that’s the example people were using).

    So what exactly did they do?

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      The egg prices were a result of price fixing in an effort to undermine the Biden administration and get Trump elected.

      The 3 companies involved were fined ($3.3 million, after profiting 1.2 Billion from it).

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        They profited closer to $4-5 billion. That $1.2 billion figure was for one year, from the one publicly traded company. The three largest egg producers participated in this for 4 years.

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        I wish the fines were at least somewhat in line with the profit. There is no negative incentive to bend at the knee.

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      Was that market just recovering from purges in flocks due to avian flu outbreak? So even with Trumps shenanigans it was still going to drop. I’d have review the timeline though, but that is what I suspect

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        There was an outbreak with Biden and that lead to one increase which started to stabilize. Then there was either supposedly another outbreak under the orange-doodoo-dodo and afterwards the prices started to stabilize again.